House 65th

HOUSE 65th

To celebrate their 50th anniversary, Lonnie and Lillie House renewed their vows in the Valley View Church in East Wenatchee, Wash., in front of family and friends. For their 65th wedding anniversary the whole family went out for dinner and later had a reception at home.

Lillie Lela Harlen-Taylor married Lonnie Leroy House on April 21, 1948 in Bentinville, Ark.

Lonnie and Lillie House lived in Webb City, Mo., until their first child, Leroy Edward, was born, then they moved to Kansas City, Mo., where they welcomed daughter Lois Ellen in 1952. Two months later they moved to Washington State, where Lonnie Leroy Jr. was born at the old Deconess Hospital in Wenatchee. Then they moved to Peshastin in 1966, where they owned a 30-acre orchard for 20 years. The House family moved to East Wenatchee in 1968, and where all three of their children graduated from local schools and made their homes in the Wenatchee Valley.

They were baptized in the Cashmere (Wash.) Adventist Church in 1973, and are still members to this day.

The House family includes Lee Edward House Sr. of Entiat, Wash.; Lois Ellen (House) Edwards of East Wenatchee; Lonnie Leroy House Jr. of Cashmere; 5 grandchildren, 4 great-grandchildren, and a great-great-grandchild.